Series: Heritage Planning Services Ltd unpublished report series

Site visit, The updated plans are in keeping with the 2017 permitted development (17/04542/LBA & 17/04541/FUL) and the additional loss of historic material in the region of the bathroom is considered justified in order to maximise the full potential of the proposed improvements to the living space.

Historic Building Recording

Heritage Impact Assessment.

Site visit. Trawls of: B&NES HER, NHLE, PastScape, HE Archive, online cartographic and other historic sources. The proposal to fit No. 21 Old Bond Street as a ? will require a small loss of historic fabric due to the need to pass services from the Ground to Basement levels. The remainder of the refit will be carried out using industry standard partitions and floor coverings that can be easily removed at the end of the tenancy with no lasting harm to the heritage asset. The small loss of historic fabric is judged to cause less than substantial harm, at the lower end of the scale. The works will not have a significant impact on the special character or significance of the heritage asset.

Heritage Impact Assessment

In August 2017, Heritage Planning Services Ltd was commissioned to prepare a DBA for land at 48 Chestnut Grove, Barnet, EN4 8PU (the Study Area). Planning permission is being sought for the demolition of the present house and construction of residential housing. This desk-based assessment has confirmed that the Study Area was part of the Little Grove estate since at least the 18th century, and possibly as early as the mid 16th century. A house has been associated with the estate since at least the 17th century; it was replaced in the 18th century and remodelled in the 19th century, but the exact location of the earlier house is not known. There has been a pond at the present location since at least 1817 and possibly since at least 1694, though the suggestion that it was designed or remodelled by 'Capability' Brown in the late 1760s or early 1770s could not be firmly established. Brown is known to have undertaken work for the then owner, but the details of that work are unknown. The pond was reshaped in or shortly after 1828, during a phase of landscape remodelling. The present garden also incorporates part of the wall of the estate kitchen garden, which is shown on a plan of 1817 and almost certainly dates to the later 18th century. An inspection of the garden revealed two further garden features likely to be later 18th century in date, together with an underground chamber that could be an air-raid shelter associated with military or civil defence use of the Study Area during World War II. Little Grove estate was sold in the 1930s, the country house was demolished, and the grounds subsequently used for housing and a secondary school. The present house at no. 48 is a post-war construction. The Study Area incorporates the pond and part of the brick kitchen garden wall, two of only three confirmed surviving features of a former designed landscape that dates to at least 1817.

Desk Based Assessment

Heritage Impact Assessment

Historic Impact Assessment

Site visit, online trawls of NHLE and Wiltshire HER, online historic mapping. Overall, the scheme is considered to have a low impact on the setting and significance of the historic environs and offers a small benefit to Park View. The overall harm is judged to be less substantial and at the lower end of the scale and should be considered acceptable in heritage terms.